Some researchers had been reluctant, though, to say that Neanderthals may make symbolic art. Based on the evidence at the time, it appeared that early European art didn’t flourish until a significant wave of recent Homo sapiens arrived on the continent about 40,000 to 50,000 years in the past. Dated to sixty five,000 years in the past, the cave work and shell beads are the primary artworks dated to the time of Neanderthals, and they embrace the oldest cave art ever discovered. In two new research, revealed Thursday in Science and Science Advances, researchers lay out the case that these…
- 08/01/2021
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